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T O P I C R E V I E W

Robert Pearlman

From The Trumpet (newsletter from Swann Auction Galleries):

Our fourth annual Space Exploration auction on Saturday, March 18 features an important collection of manuscripts, documents and photographs related to early rocketry, including an ALS from Konstantin Tsiolkovsky to the Imperial Academy of Science inquiring about the status of funding to conduct experiments on the resistance of air, February 1900 ($2000/3000); a sheet with 7 drawings of Robert Goddard's designs for reducing and tank valves for his liquid fueled rockets ($10,000/12,000); excellent material related to the V-2 rocket including photographs, engineering diagrams, blueprints and technical documents; and Wernher von Braun correspondence and signed photographs. Among Apollo 11 artifacts from the Buzz Aldrin collection are a flown navigational chart section illustrating the flight path just prior to engine ignition that lowered Neil Armstrong and Aldrin to the lunar landing site ($25,000/30,000); and a sheet from the Lunar Surface Checklist listing procedures they followed in preparing their space suits and Lunar Module cabin in order to become the first people ever to step on the moon ($7000/9000). There are also desirable photographs and documents signed by the Apollo 11 crew. Other Apollo flights are well represented, including flown Apollo 13 material from the Fred Haise collection. Rare postal covers include the official NASA cachet for the Apollo 1 flight, postmarked the evening of the Apollo 1 spacecraft fire ($1500/2000); covers signed by complete Gemini and Apollo crews; and from the Space Shuttle program, a postal cover signed by the entire crew of the ill-fated STS-107 "Columbia" flight, postmarked on launch date and the tragic day of reentry ($4000/5000).

Larry McGlynn

I heard that the Swann catalog will be out in the mail next week. The catalog will up on their site on or about the 3rd of March.

Robert Pearlman

I received my catalog in the mail today and note that the same (sans photographs, for now) is on their website (sale # 2073).

Philip

Will absentee bidding be possible via eBay?

denem

Great question Philip. I'm curious, too, about eBay absentee bidding.

Looks like the "star attraction" is a beta cloth flown to the moon signed by the Apollo 11 crew. a very nice item!!!

Robert Pearlman

Correction to earlier reply: Swann Galleries will have all items listed on eBay for live bidding starting 7 days before the actual sale.

DChudwin

I received my catalong and found lots of nice goodies for cover collectors. For example:

Apollo 1 Fire KSC cachet and cancel-- reportedly one of only 40 existing and rarely seen at auction.

Apollo 15 flown covers, both the Sieger cover and Phases of the Moon varieties.